Platitudes Quotes
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The dictum that human nature cannot be changed is one of those tiresome platitudes that conceal from the ignorant the depths of their own ignorance.
— Bertrand Russell
I want to explore marriage without the usual Hallmark Card platitudes. Life is difficult, and I like movies that acknowledge that.
— Harold Ramis
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
— Aldous Huxley
Where could you go in Harrisonville?-this smalltime place haunted by by homilies, platitudes, and booshwah.
— Joe Eszterhas
Principles without programs are platitudes.
— George Bernard Shaw
Platitudes and generalities roll of the human understanding like water from a duck
— Claude C. Hopkins
As is the curse of Humanity. We constantly rediscover the old and sing platitudes of its newness.
— J.D. Brewer
I find talking about acting very boring, having to come out with platitudes about how terribly nice everyone is. I would much rather just do it.
— Penelope Wilton
Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
— Margaret Thatcher
Platitudes are safe, because they're easy to wink at, but truth is something else again.
— Hunter S. Thompson
Platitude: All that is mortal of a departed truth.
— Ambrose Bierce
Things which sound like platitudes become vital, living and powerful when you have to learn them in dark tunnels.
— Elisabeth Elliot
You haven't really failed until you've resorted to platitudes.
— Glenn Arthur Pierce
One becomes sated with platitudes no less than honey, so that one often breaks another's bones in one's vexation.
— Jack Vance
Platitudes or otherwise, there were no words to ease the agony of living.
— Catherine Cookson
Applause: the echo of a platitude.
— Marty Rubin
Please don't say you're sorry, False platitudes of sorrow, of pity, of goddamned praise of being a hero, sicken me.
— Dominique Eastwick
Not easily placatedby outdated
platitudes
used to soothe
or mask
the obtuse.
Take your nonsenses-
leave. — Cheri Bauer
Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.
— Thornton Wilder
Platitudes are generally the oldest and profoundest of truths ...
— Frances Noyes Hart
Ethics is not about platitudes, let alone tautologies, logic or mathematics, but about difficult choices - dilemmas.
— Martin Cohen
There is no greater mistake than to suppose that platitudes, smooth words, and timid policies offer a path to safety.
— Winston Churchill
To me, when I think of New Age, I think of crystals and rainbows and platitudes.
— Marianne Williamson
So those pills that offered painless relief stayed stored on the shelf, out of the strength of her reach, high atop the altar of platitudes.
— J.R. Hamantaschen
We shall reach greater and greater platitudes of achievment.
— Richard J. Daley
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?
— Norman Douglas
I am a dull fellow ... my person reeks, my conversation consists of insipid platitudes.
— Jack Vance
Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true before it gets to be a platitude ...
— Katharine Fullerton Gerould
Simple truths are never platitudes; they only become commonplace because we fail to live them profoundly.
— John Furia Jr.
If some dude I'd never heard of managed to broadcast a platitude like that to the whole globe, I'd probably just feel like I was being spammed.
— Damian Kulash
Applause, n. The echo of a platitude.
— Ambrose Bierce
Given how I feel right now, I can only assume that my giving you the same bullshit platitudes earlier didn't help you, either.
— Chloe Neill
